-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Asif,
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:07:09AM +0000, asif saeed wrote: > After reading the license and subsequent updates, I am confused about > it. It *looks* like one can use it freely in commercial applications. > However, I would like to know in simple layman terms as to whether 0mq > could be used commercially and on what terms? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License#Differences_from_the_GPL Money Quote: The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter allows the work to be linked with (in the case of a library, 'used by') a non-(L)GPLed program, regardless of whether it is free software or proprietary software.[1] Basically: You may use the library for whatever you want, but you have to release all modifications made to libzmq under LGPL. As usual, I'm not a lawyer. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (Darwin) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSOAemAAoJEKkVOTYKXmyzvBUQAJDQ8INOND/ZvsSAoHglyLMW Pb2CcICHYZATsIsMZJ/9oFvVaIOYmvN4YAQRPPaBoc6+XclOSSprCXEEr85CQAYA lvG0lLepv8wgng226YP905zA2Xf1Aay/g91mXyTHOIlpqPgJJcQ2m/6UpbcDY6om +YSY+hsQAuNe9t7Y5RzqZiTHbaflV22b6Vol3sE+Ao9PNDOVsz/Vqr8ZXhwwcfeD ppmN+AIxOvajFmWM5FrUUnqemScJgA5UyEhSvH4JNoXHy+w4Hpxlu1Hty7sIVneK ACgqwbXA6985KJUHDI/nEtbScZ1Msjm8AAhqB9nKaMw6t7ozqK7eRosWRnvcjg1v OL/5zhdS2Ob5lei5/vTcwYh86jrpUYHuGItLTGZMYp6UhXUPQf0DZV8oBYPsILeN NuhJwAhZuIkYzFluROt6Ko/doGE4N02qIScNyUEFysKNR5BMI7/gfCdz6ec3a9U1 mz4vrddC1IzqZX8NxEkfiJ4ekw7WSgXnje8USHiJWfRiM+SyRXTDkxT5hlktvrY3 1zCoHP/2KhwnxfDbRInkK3SN8NL+T8vgYhW6VkAAryiMfN2tfe3sw/GuqBniCFWd KZE26KNHlcXO2HacZd1fxQjVwRLxbJh+K74zcAxSS+/odr+4tPZAO5xoYBUXQpOR 21JBNRnI67g3oLXZ7Ljd =/jBk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
